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[Illustration: Jessie Talking to Rover.--Front]
JESSIE CARLTON; The Story of a Girl who fought with little Impulse, the Wizard, AND CONQUERED HIM.
Author Of "Guy Carlton," "Dick Duncan," "My Uncle Toby's Library," Etc.
BOSTON: BROWN & TAGGARD. NEW YORK: HOWE & FERRY.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, By HOWE & FERRY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
RENNIE, SHEA & LINDSAY, Stereotypers and Electrotypers, 81, 83 & 85 Centre-street, New York.
R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, 81, 83 & 85 Centre-st.
The purpose of the "Glen Morris Stories" is to sow the seed of pure, noble, manly character in the mind of our great nation's childhood. They exhibit the virtues and vices of childhood, not in prosy, unreadable precepts, but in a series of characters which move before the imagination as living beings do before the senses. Thus access to the heart is won by way of the imagination. While the story charms, the truth sows itself in the conscience and in the affections. The child is thereby led to abhor the false and the vile, and to sympathize with the right, the beautiful, and the true. To every parent, teacher, and guardian, who has affinity with these high purposes, the "Glen Morris Stories" are most respectfully inscribed by their fellow-laborer in the field of childhood.
I. Guy Carlton, the Story of a Boy who belonged to the "Try Company." II. Dick Duncan, the Story of a Boy who loved Mischief. III. Jessie Carlton, the Story of a Girl who fought with little Impulse, the Wizard, and conquered him. IV. Walter Sherwood, the Story of an easy, good-natured Boy. V. Kate Carlton, the Story of a vain Girl.
CHAPTER PAGE I. Jessie And Impulse The Wizard. 11 II. Jessie's Two Cousins. 27 III. A Nutting-Party. 43 IV. Jessie's Great Sorrow. 59 V. The Broken Mirror. 76 VI. The First Slide of the Season. 92 VII. Jessie's First Great Victory. 108 VIII. Farewell to the Cousins. 122 IX. The Wizard in the Field Again. 136 X. Madge Clifton. 151 XI. Madge Clifton's Mother. 166 XII. Little Impulse beaten again. 180 XIII. The Skating-Party. 194 XIV. The Watch-Pocket finished. 209 XV. Thanksgiving Day. 222